President Bush showed everyone the three file cabinets of the so-called bankrupt Social Security trust fund of U.S. Treasury bonds on April 5 in West Virginia.

These are the same U.S. Treasury bonds bought by U.S. citizens and thousands of Chinese and Japanese investors. Does this mean the full faith and credit of the U.S. government behind these Treasury bonds is zero?

Who is kidding whom?

I hope the Chinese and Japanese do not believe that, since they are financing our budget deficit, and neither should anyone else.

Carl Beckett, Mechanic Falls